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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Criterion referenced tests
Syntax
Semantics
V-e
2. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Accent
Cognitive Assessment
Universal Screening
3. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Dyslexia
Oral Language
Whole Language
Reliability
4. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Standard score
V-e
Closed Syllable
IDEA
5. Open syllable
Accent
Kinesthetic
V >
Analytic
6. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Anna Gillingham
Percentile/ percentile rank
IDEA
VAKT
7. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
ADHD
Semantics
Vowel Digraph
Universal Screening
8. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Suffix
WIATII
Age equivalent
Texas Education Code 38.003
9. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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10. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
WIATII
Combination
Receptive language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
11. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Quadrigraph
Trigraph
Consonant
12. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Mathew Effect
Rate
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Chall's Stage 0
13. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
Trigraph
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Frank Smith
14. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
WRAT
Analytic
Kinesthetic
Accommodation
15. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Visual Learners
Phonics approach
Old English
Diagnostic Teaching
16. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
IDEA
Vowel
Whole Language
Cognition
17. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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18. Whole body learning
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
ADHD
Kinesthetic
Percentile
19. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Chall's Stage 0
Attention
Letter naming Chart
Combination
20. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
ALTA
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Stanine Scores
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
21. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Pre-English
Components of Reading Instruction
Adolf Kusmaul
MSLE
22. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Accommodation
Top-down Reading Approach
Auditory Learners
Rate
23. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Percentile
Keith Stanovich
Percentile/ percentile rank
24. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Towre
Visual Learners
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Reading Comprehension Support
25. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
V-e
Tilde
Phonological Awareness
Standardized test
26. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
[-'le
Phonics approach
Standard score
Synthetic Instruction
27. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Academic Achievement Tests
Comprehension
Mastery level
Phonemic Awareness
28. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Cognitive Assessment
Norm-referenced tests
Academic Achievement Tests
Towre
29. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Prefix
Phoneme
The Norman Conquest
30. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Old English
Vr
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Joe Torgesen
31. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Academic Achievement Tests
Raw score
ALTA
32. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Combination
Chall's Stage 5
RTI
Accent
33. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Norm-Referenced Test
Standardized test
Achievement test
Analytic
34. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Curriculum referenced tests
Components of Reading Instruction
Percentile
35. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Top-down Reading Approach
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Open Syllable
Suffix
36. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Vowel
Curriculum referenced tests
Keith Stanovich
Grade equivalents
37. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Modification
VV
Multisensory
Criterion referenced tests
38. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Letter naming Chart
RTI
Synthetic Instruction
Adolf Kusmaul
39. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Morphology
Texas Education Code 38.003
Grade equivalents
Phonemic Awareness
40. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Visual Learners
IMSLEC
NICHD
Visual Processing
41. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Matthew Effect
Trigraph
Multi-Sensory Approach
42. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Semantics
Chall's Stage 5
Towre
43. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Stanine Scores
Dyslexia
Mathew Effect
44. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Receptive language
Anglo Saxon
Social language
Consonant
45. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Impulsivity
Auditory Processing
Middle English
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
46. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Standard deviation
Texas Education Code 38.003
Expressive language
Three Layers of Language
47. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Standard deviation
Middle English
IMSLEC
48. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Greek layer of language
Percentile
Direct Instruction
Whole Language
49. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Semantics
Kinesthetic
Achievement test
50. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Tilde
GORT
Orthography
Anna Gillingham